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Abortion clinics and exclusion zones

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Newspaper clippings about the East Melbourne Fertility Clinic, and others, and a bill to be brought in that will ban protesters to a 150 metre exclusion zone around the clinics.
Age editorial, 3 September 2015
Safeguarding women by Miki Perkins, The Age, 5 September 2015.
Rank and vile by Jen Vuk, The Age, 17 March 2014.
Doyle applauds law, The Age, ? 2014

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Abortion clinics win exclusion zones

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Laws past in 2015 that make illegal to harass people within 150 metres of abortion providers came into effect on Monday 2 May 2016. Anti-abortion advocates produced a flyer which was circulated throughout East Melbourne in protest against the new laws. This was picked up by The Saturday Paper.

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Fertility Clinic and Buffer Zones

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A newspaper article about Dr Susie Allanson's fight for legally enforced buffer zones around abortion clinics.  The article covers a string of horrifying incidents between protestors and patients at the East Melbourne clinic, including the murder of a security guard. 

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